Guild Wars 2

I really want to see Mass-taunt chain into stomp. Enemies charge straight into you and then you press stomp so that they get launched away.

I don’t care how long the cooldown has to be increased. I just want this so that stomp can be useful and it will be a very great support skill.

That would be a lot of fun and good amount of CC.

I’m just excited about finally getting a taunt!
I’d be over the moon if they gave warriors a steady way to get retaliation.

Taunt for Stomp would be nice, but taunt for Defiant Stance even nicer

Sounds nice, but to make it effective you need an AoE Taunt application with a range of ~1k and a duration of 3-5 seconds. Which is just OP. If the range is smaller, why can’t you just stomp without taunt, if the enemies are in range?

Not to mention this takes up 2 utility slots, gl surviving against anything :P

And 3rd, if you use taunt why would you stomp them away? They are balled up, cleave them down!

witcher.3197:

Sounds nice, but to make it effective you need an AoE Taunt application with a range of ~1k and a duration of 3-5 seconds. Which is just OP. If the range is smaller, why can’t you just stomp without taunt, if the enemies are in range?

Not to mention this takes up 2 utility slots, gl surviving against anything :P

And 3rd, if you use taunt why would you stomp them away? They are balled up, cleave them down!

EotM

hmm. The taunt defiance stance concept really makes me want to log onto my warrior haha.

Taunt > Fear Me is better anyways

BlackTruth.6813:

Taunt > Fear Me is better anyways

This.

Shadelang.3012:

hmm. The taunt defiance stance concept really makes me want to log onto my warrior haha.

Taunt into defiant stance, how is this good? They will only be auto attacking… I’d rather have them attempt a burst and soak that instead of 4 auto’s.

Cygnus.6903:

BlackTruth.6813:

Taunt > Fear Me is better anyways

This.

Shadelang.3012:

hmm. The taunt defiance stance concept really makes me want to log onto my warrior haha.

Taunt into defiant stance, how is this good? They will only be auto attacking… I’d rather have them attempt a burst and soak that instead of 4 auto’s.

You could use it to force players to continue to hit you after they have noticed your heal. The problem with it currently is that anyone with any knowledge of the skill will stop attacking after you use it. With Taunt you would be able to force people to hit you after they have realized. Use Defiant Stance at the start of a burst, they stop attacking, Taunt. In PvE the benefits are pretty obvious but even in PvP doing this in a team fight could be pretty effective.

Throw in Frenzy and you could have a pretty interesting burst build. Let yourself get low on health, activate everything and pull everyone into your 100b or axe aa combo. I’m hoping for some sort of elite shout that causes Taunt. It would give some more viability to double melee sets. It will make landing burst skills way easier so you can actually get a reliable cleanse.

Personally, I’m more interested in Taunt + Distracting Strikes.

They did not say Taunt will make your enemy spam his autoattack. All they say is Taunt will lock the entire skilbar except for autoattack. Or at least that’s how I see it.

Xaylin.1860:

Personally, I’m more interested in Taunt + Distracting Strikes.

Ohhhhhh kitten .

The question is though, are Warriors 100% sure to get a taunt? Because that it would not make sense if not.

witcher.3197:

They did not say Taunt will make your enemy spam his autoattack. All they say is Taunt will lock the entire skilbar except for autoattack. Or at least that’s how I see it.

No, they didn’t. But it will most likely still work well. The worst outcome you would have is an enemy not doing anything while your conditions tick on him. But I guess we will have to see.

Imagine the enemy walking into 100 blades =)

xDudisx.5914:

Imagine the enemy walking into 100 blades =)

this ^. A mechanic that actually makes 100b damage reliable in a sense? kitten.

Also worth to note in this thread, that there has been no talk of adding utilities to existing professions, only specializations.

And it has been said that specializations might lose some of the utilities and/or mechanics of the base class. Meaning any speculation of Taunt+anything warrior has now might be not possible to do in HoT.

Now, Taunt + 100blades should definitely be possible, as it doesn’t rely on any utilities we have currently or our burst mechanic.

Why do you think you get a taunt? Even if you get one its will be high telegraphed on a long cd. And its not like you cant use stunbreak either.

And like Tom said, new cookies are for revenant+specializations olny

Scoobaniec.9561:

Why do you think you get a taunt? Even if you get one its will be high telegraphed on a long cd. And its not like you cant use stunbreak either.

And like Tom said, new cookies are for revenant+specializations olny

If Warrior gets a taunt and people stun break that, now they’re vulnerable to other chain CC combos Warrior have.

Must be so hard to count stun breaks I guess. But who knows? Maybe next patch will give all classes 10 million stun breaks.

BlackTruth.6813:

Scoobaniec.9561:

Why do you think you get a taunt? Even if you get one its will be high telegraphed on a long cd. And its not like you cant use stunbreak either.

And like Tom said, new cookies are for revenant+specializations olny

If Warrior gets a taunt and people stun break that, now they’re vulnerable to other chain CC combos Warrior have.

Must be so hard to count stun breaks I guess. But who knows? Maybe next patch will give all classes 10 million stun breaks.

Dodge, blind, block, stability, invul, teleport, counter cc. Something you probably never heard about. I personally love to use point blank right in the moment i see hammer warrior using earthshaker. Puff your chain cc combos are gone.

BlackTruth.6813:

Scoobaniec.9561:

Why do you think you get a taunt? Even if you get one its will be high telegraphed on a long cd. And its not like you cant use stunbreak either.

And like Tom said, new cookies are for revenant+specializations olny

If Warrior gets a taunt and people stun break that, now they’re vulnerable to other chain CC combos Warrior have.

Must be so hard to count stun breaks I guess. But who knows? Maybe next patch will give all classes 10 million stun breaks.

If someone uses taunt they’re probably choosing it over another CC or utility. It’s not like it comes free for those that use it, either.

Really makes me hope the warrior spec becomes more tanky with a Taunt utility. I hope it’s part of a larger push from the “go zerk or go home” mentality.

They can “easily” control how powerful Taunt is for wars it by taking away certain weapon groups.

Way too much CC? Well the Warrior Spec can’t use Hammer.
100b+Taunt too strong? Remove GS from the Warrior Spec.

(not saying both of those should happen, maybe the hammer though as it already has enough control without adding taunt to the list). As others have said it’s no different than other types of CC, heck in some cases it’s “worse” (because you’ll still be taking some damage/condis). Heck it may not even change some condi builds dps as most of the condis come from the aa anyways.

vs. Fear: Running towards you, but you’re taking damage, so situational which ones better.
vs. Knockdown: knockdown is gonna be better as long as you are within weapon range
vs. Knockback: like fear depends if you can move to keep hitting them, if so, yeah this is better than taunt

The only thing I wonder right now is if they can weapon swap while Taunted. I assume so, but I am still going to love watching someone go from a ranged weapon to melee, only to get Taunted and be unable to attack me, while hitting them from range.

I’d also love to see some traits working with Taunt, depending on the CD & duration.
Take 20%? less damage from Taunted enemies.
Can’t be crit’ed from Taunted enemies.
Gain ~2-4s retaliation from attacks by Taunted enemies (max 1 time per enemy)
Apply Taunt when using <type> utility skills (heck runes that apply taunt for that matter)

So maybe the warrior spec is a shieldwall, able to dual wield shields. OMG!

Scoobaniec.9561:

Why do you think you get a taunt? Even if you get one its will be high telegraphed on a long cd. And its not like you cant use stunbreak either.

And like Tom said, new cookies are for revenant+specializations olny

Taunt is a cc that makes the enemy runs towards you. I see it been ranged. Wouldn’t make much sense for a cc that makes the enemy walk towards you to be bound to melee skills.

We don’t know if other classes are getting taunt or not either. Torment started only in a few skills and then they started making it available for everyone else.

xDudisx.5914:

Scoobaniec.9561:

Why do you think you get a taunt? Even if you get one its will be high telegraphed on a long cd. And its not like you cant use stunbreak either.

And like Tom said, new cookies are for revenant+specializations olny

I see it been ranged.

Killshot says hi. If warrior get it then im pretty sure we will see that skill in new utility type. I wish they could make physical skills viable tho..

well, warrior did not get pull on release till now.
which i always thought it should from the beginning.

YES YES YES I WANT AOE TAUNT TO STOMP ALL IN MY WAY!!!

BOW DOWN

Scoobaniec.9561:

Why do you think you get a taunt? Even if you get one its will be high telegraphed on a long cd. And its not like you cant use stunbreak either.

And like Tom said, new cookies are for revenant+specializations olny

Because it makes sense.

runeblade.7514:

Scoobaniec.9561:

Why do you think you get a taunt? Even if you get one its will be high telegraphed on a long cd. And its not like you cant use stunbreak either.

And like Tom said, new cookies are for revenant+specializations olny

Because it makes sense.

Besides, if you have to be a specialization to get the new goodies (slow, taunt, resistance) how many people do you think are going to stay their base class? All I know is my friends and I can’t wait for me to taunt things to keep them alive.

runeblade.7514:

Scoobaniec.9561:

Why do you think you get a taunt? Even if you get one its will be high telegraphed on a long cd. And its not like you cant use stunbreak either.

And like Tom said, new cookies are for revenant+specializations olny

Because it makes sense.

Pull also makes sense yet i can’t find it anywhere in our utilities/wep skills outside of spear. Your point is invalid.